Principal, Discipline Lead - Acoustic

About The Position

The Principal, Discipline Lead is a senior technical leadership position responsible for advancing discipline standards, best practices, documentation, training, and design quality across the firm. As a member of TEECOM’s Engineering Team, you’ll help reduce firmwide risk, strengthen project delivery, and ensure our systems scale effectively. You’ll lead through expertise and clarity—setting direction for how the discipline is practiced, guiding complex design decisions, and maintaining high standards across teams and projects. You’ll serve as the firm’s subject matter expert for your discipline, providing judgment on design challenges, conducting design and QA/QC reviews, and supporting project teams with early guidance.

Responsibilities

• Annual and Quarterly Align discipline priorities, standards, and technical guidance to support company OKRs.
• Develop and maintain discipline standards, templates, and documentation in GitHub to support consistent delivery.
• Lead discipline training journeys across career levels to strengthen technical growth and cross-discipline alignment.
• Drive improvements to tools, workflows, QA/QC practices, technical consistency, and cross-discipline alignment.
• Partner with Production Leads, Group Leads, and Team Leads to align discipline initiatives with firmwide engineering and delivery goals.
• Audit and verify consistent use of discipline standards and workflows across projects, identifying gaps and recommending improvements.
• Conduct peer reviews and deep dives on major or high-risk projects to reinforce quality and reduce risk.
• Review lessons learned and technical risks to inform system improvements and discipline direction.
• Support strategic pursuits and contribute to discipline thought leadership through technical positioning, blogs, white papers, industry presentations, and content in partnership with Marketing and Client Relations.
• Partner with Group Leads and Team Leads to address technical skill gaps through improvements to training, tools, and workflows.
• Lead discipline meetings to review lessons learned, design risks, emerging technologies, and updates to standards or workflows.
• Conduct discipline peer reviews and technical deep dives on major or high-risk projects to reinforce quality and consistency.
• Collaborate with Project Leads, Group Leads, and Team Leads to resolve discipline challenges, coordination issues, and delivery risks.
• Facilitate manufacturer or industry sessions to keep teams informed about evolving solutions, products, and industry trends.
• Provide discipline insights, progress updates, and key risks to leadership to support engineering alignment and informed decision-making.
• Participate in engineering, project delivery, and cross-discipline syncs to maintain alignment on standards, quality issues, and priorities.
• Conduct or support discipline design reviews and provide timely technical guidance on active project challenges.
• Review pursuit materials and provide coaching on discipline fees, narratives, and technical positioning to support strategic pursuits.
• Review and author discipline documentation through Pull Requests to maintain clarity, accuracy, and consistency across TEECOM.
• Support onboarding and mentoring of engineers and production team members within the discipline.
• Provide responsive discipline expertise to resolve design challenges, coordination issues, and urgent project needs.
• Maintain visibility into discipline activity across Slack, GitHub, and Asana to support timely responses to technical questions, PR reviews, and documentation updates.
• Assess project delivery team members knowledge of their respective disciplines and identify gaps through reviews and interactions and work with them to improve their skill level.

Supervisory / Mentorship / Training Responsibilities

• No formal supervisory responsibilities. This is a non-managerial leadership role focused on systems, standards, and excellence.
• Mentorship: Provides discipline-specific coaching and design guidance to designers, engineers, and production staff—strengthening technical judgment, consistency, and adherence to standards.
• Training: Develops and delivers training journeys; supports onboarding and continuous learning to ensure all staff are proficient in discipline standards, tools, and documentation practices.
• Accessibility: Maintains strong visibility and approachability across teams and project delivery groups, encouraging open communication and ensuring engineers can escalate discipline questions and receive timely, thoughtful support.